A public opinion poll published yesterday shows 56 percent of Lebanese reject Syria’s occupation of the country. Only 40 percent said the presence of Syrian troops was “legitimate and provisional” – the terms favored by the country’s puppet regime that serves at the pleasure of Damascus. Syria has had occupation troops in Lebanon for 29 years and currently maintains about...
The Arab media’s indifference to the violence in Sudan
Folks, MEMRI has provided a translation of the commentary by the former editor Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, of the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, wherein Al-Rashed decried the Arab media’s indifference to the violence in Sudan. “They are not the victims of Israeli or American aggression; therefore, they are not an issue for concern. This is how an approach of indifference towards others...
Saddam’s WMDs are in Syria
Folks, five experts have made the assessment that there is mounting evidence that at least some of Saddam Hussein’s missing weapons of mass destruction are in Syria. The assessment was based on satellite images of convoys of Iraqi trucks that poured into Syria in February and March 2003. According to Middle East Newsline, quoted by WorldTribune.com, most of the intelligence community...
Should the U.S. military use Israeli bullets in live combat in the Middle East?
World Net Daily has a poll. You’ll be shocked to read what answer is getting the most hits:
Should the U.S. military use Israeli bullets in live combat in the Middle East?
Robert Kilroy-Silk is right about the Middle East, say Arabs
Folks, Robert Kilroy-Silk who hosted a daytime chat show on BBC was immediately taken off air after he wrote in a non-BBC newspaper article in January that Arabs were “suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors.” He apologized and the newspaper in question acknowledged that he had written “Arab governments” and this was inadvertently changed to “Arabs”...
The BBC’s very own Mideast foreign policy
If you want to learn about the BBC’s very own Mideast foreign policy, you need to read these two articles, one by Tom Gross, writer for National Review Online entitled Jeningrad: What the British media said and the second is from Aish, entitled BBC: Living in a Bubble.
A Fire that Destroys; a Fire that Builds
On Friday evening, June 18, 2004, there was a serious arson attack at Aish UK’s Hendon center. Fortunately no one was in the building at the time. Three fire engines were required to get the blaze under control. Two Torah scrolls were torn and desecrated in the attack. Much of the administrative offices have been destroyed and the entire function of the outreach center has been badly...
A Three Week National Period of Semi-mourning
We are about to enter the Three Weeks – the period of time between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av. (Tammuz 17 begins Monday evening, July 5th.) It is such an inauspicious period throughout our history that the Shulchan Aruch, the Code of Jewish Law, forbids the performance of weddings. It is a period of introspection with thoughts to correcting one’s mistakes in life. During...
Feeling good about a small victory
Folks, I’m trying to resist the urge to reprint the full text of articles because, let’s face it, folks prefer an abridged synopsis. However, I chose to reprint the full story here by Naomi Ragen because I want you to pay attention to what I emboldened. And when you get to that part, ask yourself, did you hear that on the news? I didn’t. But I’m glad Naomi wrote about it...
Debbie, where’s your outrage?
Debbie, where’s your outrage? Poor, poor, Debbie, try to be a little honest, even though you don’t know what the word “honesty” means, but don’t you feel a teensy weenie bit responsible for betraying your own people and remaining silent about it? I mean, these arson attacks were practically in your own backyard, you were probably silently cheering when you heard the...